Saw this via Keith Harris’ blog My Desiring-Machines…
The Alien Ecologies blog features a post outlining an essay by Maurizio Lazzarato (translated by Mary Neil) that is figured as a homage to Felix Guattari:
Maurizio Lazzarato: Homage to Felix Guattari
In this essay “Semiotic Pluralism” and the New Government of Signs Homage to Félix Guattari Maurizio Lazzarato (trans. Mary O’Neill) develops and extends Guattari’s a-signifying semiotics as part of his ongoing elaboration of financial capitalism.
As he’ll remind us capitalism for Guattari is a “semiotic category that affects all levels of production and all levels of the stratification of power”. Yet, Guattari’s use of semiotics had a duo aspect to it: 1) an signifying semiotics of representationalism; and, an a-signifying semiotics of infrastructural and empirical elements of material relations, a mapping rather than a tracing of these ubiquitous aspects of capital. Read his essay, definitely opens up Guattari’s thought in ways few have so far. His books of course deal with both debt and his incorporation of Guattari’s thought: see MIT Press.
Read the whole post or look at the article over on Alien Ecologies…